Why aren't BUILT_SOURCES removed by "make distclean"?
From:
Reuben Thomas
Subject:
Why aren't BUILT_SOURCES removed by "make distclean"?
Date:
Fri, 20 Jul 2007 16:34:47 -0400
I have to add $(BUILT_SOURCES) to CLEANFILES to avoid complaints about files
that still exist after make distclean. Since the point of BUILT_SOURCES is
to get sources built that aren't distributed, it would seem reasonable that
they be cleaned up by make distclean. I'm using automake 1.10. Am I missing
something? In the manual it mentions the heuristic rules for what gets
removed by the various *clean targets, and since "make" builds these files,
it seems reasonable that it should remove them.